Satoshi Kirishima was the happiest-looking fugitive in all of Japan. For nearly half a century, his smiling visage (fresh-faced, glasses, long hair) was a fixture on police posters nationwide. It was ...

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“Some have seriously asked themselves if they were part of the Revolution or if they just made films. For me, the two are one and the same thing,” says the great Japanese auteur Masao Adachi in “It ...

The first in a planned series of films about radical filmmakers by film critic Nicole Brenez and filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve is a portrait of ...

"Who are May and Fusako Shigenobu? Fusako — leader of an extremist left-wing faction, the Japanese Red Army, involved in a number of terrorist operations — has been in hiding in Beirut for almost 30 ...

The filmmaker, screenwriter, film theorist, artist, and political activist Adachi Masao (b. 1939) is considered—along with Koji Wakamatsu and Nagisa Oshima—a leading figure in Japanese New Wave Cinema ...

This is the 36th film shown in the documentary program of the IAF cinematheque. It will be screened at 5 p.m. at Nasseri Hall, IRNA reported. The screening will be followed by a review session with ...

A film on exile revolution landscapes and memory Anabasis brings forth the remarkable parallel stories of Adachi and May one a filmmaker who gave up images the other a young woman whose identityless ...

IT MAY BE THAT BEAUTY HAS STRENGTHENED OUR RESOLVE: MASAO ADACHI (Philippe Grandrieux, France). 74 minutes. Subtitled. Wednesday (November 7), 7 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox. TORONTO REEL ASIAN ...

French filmmaker Eric Baudelaire’s 2011 experimental documentary looks at the connects between Fusako Shigenobu, leader of the radical Japanese Red Army, his daughter May, and the radical Japanese ...